newbury
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- Joined
- Jan 8, 2009
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- Location
- From Vt, in Va, retiring to MS
- Tractor
- Kubota's - B7610, M4700
Welcome to my world. Buying used is always like shooting fish in a barrel. The fish are 2 small minnows, the water is muddy, your shooting a BB pistol and the barrel is a stock water tank.one thing for sure, it's hard to find a nice fairly priced used dually around here. Very scarce, and with my luck, I'd get the wrong Powerstroke, wasn't one of them a serious problem?
I searched for months for my '02.
All the Powerstrokes are wrong - the 7.3's were subject to cavitation, the 6's to headbolt problems and I'm sure the newer ones also will have something.
And with a good older used you'll have the $$ for more tractor.But ordering one new is sixty grand...I just can not justify that for my retired use, even if I am about to buy a larger property.
I'd rather buy a bigger tractor...![]()
Set up a search on e-bay to get a good idea of prices. When I bought my 350 dually prices were a couple of thousand less if I went to Pennsylvania, Georgia or South Carolina but very little near me. However I found mine on one of the Ford forums. It was local and the guy had a great reputation for maintaining vehicles. He had just bought a 450 to haul a bigger horse trailer.So realistically I am looking used, and I plugged in forty grand in autotrader.com and surprisingly little came up. and plug in thirty grand and one goes back more than ten years...these DRW trucks must sure hold their value well. Is there a trick for searching for duallys without using dually as a key word? I bet I'm missing trucks...
so I guess I'll have to go through all the diesel trucks to find them.
Pertinent things -
Local - I was able to "quickly" go see it. Check out the owner, both at his house and on the net.
Reason for selling - needed a bigger truck. It didn't look like anything was wrong, passed state safety inspection fine.
Owner's reputation - on the net (he is an ebay seller of used military vehicles) and local - great.
Be sure to look ahead on your trip, there are deals everywhere.No matter what, I'm not doing this until the Fall. But i start researching early...and I was going to get a new p/u when I got back from my rv trip anyway.
It's been discussed here a lot. I think the general consensus at least for the older trucks was a Ford 7.3 in a Dodge body w/ an Allison transmission.<snip>
Chevy, Ford or Dodge, nothing new here, they all are good, the Chevy likely a little more powerful, but I'm told the Fords really tow well.
bet there would be a few opinions voiced on that...